Thanks to
Ms. Allende’s Kindergarten, Ms. Pesce’s 1st grade, Ms. Keahey’s 2nd
grade, Ms. Accavallo’s 3rd grade, Ms. Welch’s 4th grade
and Ms. Cain’s 5th grade for a fantastic week of making, coding, and
problem solving!
Ms.
Allende’s Eco-Schools/ Wrigley’s Litter Less Ambassadors did a fantastic job
cleaning up the courtyard area in preparation for Volunteer Houston. They will
constructing a new outdoor classroom for us! In the STEM lab they were learning
about adding loops to their algorithms in Code.org Course I.
Ms. Pesce’s
class is making fantastic progress in their Code.org class! Several students
are only a couple of lessons away from completing Course I! Ms. Pesce has some
brand new students and her experienced classroom leaders are doing a great job
helping them get comfortable with the STEM lab!
2nd
& 3rd grade have been
building a big multi-step project in Scratch this week. They imported a set of
sprites and then had to create a few original ones, programmed each to change its
appearance and move in different way. They then created a range of original
backgrounds and added some interactive script. These projects were wonderfully
diverse and creative! On Friday everyone made virtual Valentines!
4th
grade did a little of everything this week! They went to their Leader In Me
jobs, did some programming in Scratch, worked on improving the gardens, played
Think Fun logic games, and made virtual Valentines!
5th
grade were extremely successful with the mini milk carton automata. As Piney
Point is an Eco-School we are very dedicated to reducing consumption, reusing
whenever possible, and recycling whatever we can – especially in the
MakerSpace! Students carefully cleaned up their milk cartons from lunch and we used
them, straws from Sonic (carefully cleaned!), old folders (names and numbers
redacted!), cereal boxes, and cardboard scraps to construct our gallery of
automata.
On Friday, the 2nd-5th grade classes created virtual Valentines in Scratch!
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